silversaddle1 said:
$50.00 a pound? Not hardly! I would suggest you wander on over to E-bay and take a look at what some of those one pound lots are bringing! Some of the better trimmed lots are getting $120.00 a pound.
While technically true, have we become a den of scammers on par with eBay?
Hey, I have nothing against anyone who, with
full disclosure of what they have for sale, still gets someone to pay way, way too much for it. Around here, however, we have a pretty good idea of what clean fingers will yield.
Good neatly-chopped high-density two-sided fingers can give 1-2% gold. The eBay crap rarely comes out to half that. So at $20/100g, a pound of fingers would conceivably net you a bit under $100. Minus chemicals, minus processing time, minus the
extremely high risk of getting scammed and getting nothing but a package full of dead squirrels; if you pay $120/lb for fingers on eBay, you deserve what you get.
I'd put a 50% markup as just about the right risk:benefit price - You breakeven if you get conned every other buy, which realistically you might manage to only get conned every third buy.<BR>
Just buy local, and inspect the merch before handing over the cash. 8)